before everything has a name

Overview

The film explores the epistemological decolonization of perception, seeking to suspend the habitual impulse to name and classify. Drawing imagery from hand-processed 35mm film stills collected from natural environments, the artist meticulously layers textures through slow dissolves to activate the image’s potential for indeterminate sensations. "Before everything has a name" is not an imagination of the past, but a perceptual mode experienced in the present, a place where language has not yet taken shape and naming has not yet severed the interconnections among all things.